•Electricity grid Benin Republic and Togo owe Nigeria $8.84m for the electricity consumed in the fourth quarter of 2024. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission revealed this in a report highlighting the remittances made by bilateral customers (domestic and international) and special customers for invoices issued in 2024/Q4 by the Marke...
Nigerian passengers aboard an Air France flight have been left stranded in Lomé, Togo, following a diversion caused by bad weather in Abuja. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, raised the alarm over the situation in a statement posted on his official X account last night. Keyamo revealed that the Air France [&hel...
•Nigerian students Despite the federal government’s hammer on degrees obtained from universities in Togo and Benin Republic, Nigerian youth continue to seek higher education in these neighbouring French-speaking countries. This article reveals why the youths are undaunted by the government’s blacklist of certificates from such universities and...
•Tinubu The federal government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo. The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date, reports The PUNCH. The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Governme...
•Federal Secretariat, Abuja Some federal civil servants at the weekend were gripped with fear over the security of their jobs following claims that the government has started weeding out those who obtained their degree certificates from unrecognised universities in Benin Republic and Togo. The situation was heightened by a post on the verified...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the country supplies electricity to neighbouring nations such as Togo, Benin Republic and Niger Republic. TCN’s Chief Executive Officer Sule Abdulaziz said this last night on Channels Television. Nigeria’s power sector has in the last week experienced a series of blackouts with the national grid c...
Members of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) have approved the design for the $15bn Lagos-Abidjan Corridor Highway Development Project. The approval was given during a meeting in Lagos State, reports Channels TV. The group also said it will initiate the procurement process for the project at its next meeting. The meeting wh...
•Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The decision to invalidate degree certificates obtained from some universities in Togo and Benin Republic from 2017 till date has left over 22,000 Nigerian graduates of the institutions confused and with their fate hanging in the balance, it was gathered. A group, the Coalition of Stakeholders in Educa...
•Nigerian graduates The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman has disclosed that over 22,500 Nigerians are parading fake certificates from Benin Republic and Togo between 2019 and 2023. He said that over 21,600 obtained the certificates from unaccredited universities in Benin Republic within the time frame while about 1,105 also obtained t...
•Electricity grid None of the four international bilateral customers being supplied by the power generation companies in the Nigerian electricity supply industry made payment against the cumulative invoice of $14.19 million issued by the market operator for services rendered in the first quarter of 2024. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Com...
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